US Patent Issued to Kawasaki Jukogyo on April 21 for "Robot system and robot" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,833, issued on April 21, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).

"Robot system and robot" was invented by Tomohiro Kinoshita (Kobe, Japan), Masataka Koyama (Kobe, Japan), Hiroharu Suzuki (Kobe, Japan), Shogo Katsura (Kobe, Japan), Satoshi Hashimoto (Kobe, Japan), Yasuhiro Tano (Kobe, Japan), Kazuki Kodama (Kobe, Japan) and Akinori Igarashi (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot system includes a multi-joint robot arm including a plurality of joints; a robot controller configured or programmed to control movement of the multi-joint robot arm; an interactor configured to interact with a workpiece; a signal ou...